BLASTER (Boundary-Layer Adjoint Solver for Transonic External and high Reynolds number flow) is an open-source boundary layer solver and a Viscous-Inviscid Interaction (VII) interface written in C++ and python.
BLASTER (Boundary Layer Adjoint Solver for Transonic External and high Reynolds number flow) is an open-source boundary layer solver and a Viscous-Inviscid Interaction (VII) interface written in C++ and Python. BLASTER is able to compute transonic high Reynolds number flows and laminar and turbulent subsonic compressible flows, including attached and mildly separated flows. It can accurately predict transitions using empirical correlations. The interface can handle two and three-dimensional geometries using a strip based methodology.
Blaster is developed at the University of Liège by Paul Dechamps with the active collaboration of Adrien Crovato and Amaury Bilocq and the help of Romain Boman, and under the supervision of Grigorios Dimitriadis and Vincent E. Terrapon, since 2021.
Blaster is developed at the University of Liège by Paul Dechamps with the active collaboration of Adrien Crovato and Amaury Bilocq and the help of Romain Boman, and under the supervision of Grigorios Dimitriadis and Vincent E. Terrapon, since 2021.
# Interfaces
Blaster is currently interfaced with different inviscid flow solvers in order to perform viscous-inviscid interaction
-[DARTFlo](https://gitlab.uliege.be/am-dept/dartflo), a full potential transonic solver developed by A. Crovato
[Steady Transonic Aerodynamic and Aeroelastic Modeling for Preliminary Aircraft Design](http://hdl.handle.net/2268/251906), PhD thesis, University of Liège, 2020.
-[SU2](https://github.com/su2code/SU2.git) v7 Blackbird (Euler solver), developed at Stanford University. An interface with the newer version v8 Harrier is under development.
# References
- Dechamps Paul, Adrien Crovato, Grigorios Dimitriadis, and Vincent Terrapon, [Three-dimensional pseudo-unsteady viscous-inviscid interaction for wings in transonic flow](https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/311564), AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, doi:10.2514/6.2024-1947.
# Working with
- Dechamps Paul, [BLASTER Theory Manual](https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/325665), 2024.
Blaster is currently interfaced with different inviscid flow solvers in order to perform the viscous-inviscid interaction algorithm
- Dechamps Paul, Amaury Bilocq, Adrien Crovato, Grigorios Dimitriadis, and Vincent Terrapon, [Pseudo-unsteady, quasi-simultaneous, two-dimensional interactive boundary layer methodology for preliminary aircraft design](https://hdl.handle.net/2268/295503), ACOMEN 2022.
-dartflo, a full potential transonic solver [DARTFlo](https://gitlab.uliege.be/am-dept/dartflo) developed by A. Crovato [Steady Transonic Aerodynamic and Aeroelastic Modeling for Preliminary Aircraft Design](http://hdl.handle.net/2268/251906), PhD thesis, University of Liège, 2020.
-Dechamps Paul, [Improvement of the viscous-inviscid interaction method implemented in DARTFLO](http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/13886), Master Thesis, University of Liège, 2022.
-SU2 (The Euler solver), developed at Stanford University [SU2](https://github.com/su2code/SU2.git). It is recommended to use our own fork of the project as different tools to have a correct interface have been implemented there [SU2 FORK](https://github.com/Paul-Dech/SU2.git).
-Bilocq Amaury, [Implementation of a viscous-inviscid interaction scheme in a finite element full potential solver](http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/10352), Master Thesis, University of Liège, 2020.
